Oh wait, google already filters ebay listings to some extent, otherwise all the results would be full of *NEW* L@@K sealed shipped DVD shipped from Hong Kong.
But now, all the "review" "buy" "compare" searches can end up in one of these stores, good work Sergei.
Oh did I forget to mention, that you receive credit from your Adwords spendings to compensate seller costs?
And that paypal charges 3.5%, not the mentioned sub dollar amount? If you have a merchant account at PP you know it anyway, for the rest it is not that important.
I am looking at the API right now, all XML communication, seems easy to integrate, and is already included with some ecommerce packages....
No one said anything bad about car repairmen or the people who clean our streets. I fought my way thru the stupid system as well. and yes sometimes I am happy they made me sit thru those boring history, music or whatever else classes. Sometimes not.
All I said, that it is a far more fair system than some others, where you pay a bunchload of money, get in without an exam, finish a school and come out as dumb as you went in, than being not happy in a job that you are overqualified for.
I don't know about MC donald's managers in general, I only knew one, who happened to be some self-titled software guru and somehow ended up in managing position where I happened to apply.... He became my boss, and I quit after a month of suffering his incompetency, intolerant unfriendly asshole attitude, and constant lies. The kind of attitude you see in US teen movies, where the local fastfood boss thinks he is the king, and the best thing that can happen to its surrounding. So yes I might have a prejudgement issue with MC bosses and no I never eat in one, ever (not bc that, but I am too healthy for that stuff).
And thanks, there is no money I would step into a MCD manager's shoes, I'd better live in a tent and herd sheep in the mountains. It's the smell maybe?:)
So then again, I know very noble people who are otherwise very simple people. Without a degree, doing a good job, here and there. So be upset if you wish, all I said, that not everyone has to go to college and university, and simpler jobs that need no higher education should be filled too with people who do not belong to higher schools.
And that might offend you again, but I know that in some countries you come out of highschool with more knowledge than some others' colleges, and no, I am not getting into mentioning countries, and that might also change from school to school. Besides that might really offend some people which is not the aim of my post at all.
I did not mean to offend anyone, I know car repairmen, that have university degrees, and know a shrink that is a taxi driver as a side-job (or hobby - I never got that clear)
Because some cultures beleive, that you should only go to higher school if you can perform there. Your society needs farmes, car repairmen, plumbers and people who clean the streets
HNow in other societies, you can "buy" into college, college that most people can actually finish, then you end up with a bunch of kids with a degree, who are othervise barely suitable for a simple administration job at the local fastfood restaurant, or price/wal/whatever-mart.
I personally grew up at a place, where even getting into highschool (4 yrs after 8yrs primary) was just impossible for some, because they weren't able to perform well enough to get admission..... university exams were kind of a bloodsport back then:)
Is that right? If you allow specialization, and have a good selection of importance choices between subjects: yes... In my time, my college points included literature and history, even though I was about to go to an IT school..... Also in college we wasted a lot of time learning useless stuff because of the lack of specialization, and while I somewhat agree that a universal knowledge should be taught in schools (high, and some uni/college besides the obvious primary), in many times that amount of universal trash should be better considered.
#d web browsers are not effective, bc they are used on a 2d display to represent mostly 3d info..
they will spread when innovative 3d goggle providers start providing resolutions other than 800x600, to actually make 3d text readable, and vant me to buy a turning chair and some cyber-jockey controller....
untill that, i do not want my 2d info made 3d so it can be crappily represented on a 2d device...
On VRML: VRML was really a cool tool to demonstrate a bunch of things. I beleive that it could be brought back and used in many fields effectively, the problem is tha same: you do not want to dymp the map of NY in 3d into a browser bc it will take 20 mins to download....... now you might want to put an a simple model 3d animated on a school page, e.g. showing how a 4-stroke engine works...
oh well, VRML is so dead, and I really liked it...
Ok, Probably some will kill me for this, but the (ipod) interface, and the so hiped Wii controller just freaks me out, topi it with a buttonless mouse and I am running in the other direction. Oh wait, throw in som proprietary stuff, that only runs on windows and macs, and is a damn resource hog, and restrict the user in all ways possible to complete the horror (Itunes).
Then again, it is my personal preference , I like buttons that can be pressed, and volume controls that are either button press or can be turned in 2 directions...
I think this marriage will bring a line of broducts, that will be very hip and "innovative" and modern, but not for me sadly.
I am an owner of an ipod and hate the interface, and while the WII looks avesome I have the feeling that it would interest me for 5 minutes which after I would retreat to my keybord/mouse and/or classic ps2 controller.
Also how it will effect prices ? Apple is expensive as hell, the Nintendos are way underpriced (compared to similar products)..
just my 2c. I like buttons and terminal screens... maybe i am just too old for all that interface revolution... but try to change the volume on an ipod or FF into a song while running on a treadmill... my sony walkman had no problem with- it 15 years ago.. (DD for running though)
oh well, it might..... i do not really deal with windows machines except my game/testing machine and the family's pc's.....
on the latter i am really waiting for everyone to switch to vista or 2003 or whatever it is called now, and i can sabotage it, not have it, and just claim that i have no clue about it, so that finally i can escape from the 2hrs/week minimum fiddling around with crap they download, infect, rotate, delete, do not understand, crash, change, reinstall etc...
with my wife it is so easy. her laptop is an xterm (x Terminal) that runs everything on my (work/linux) machine. She cannot install crap, she can download it but cannot run it.... that is how it should be in a company, at home...
On the other hand your approach still does not solve my bigger problem: an effective way of remote administering windows machines even on crappy (GPRS or worse) lines (yes i had to admin cisco routers on 1200-2400bps) lines not that long ago (4 years)....
anyway not to flame, and you always learn something so i will look into what you just suggested and actually might restrict some family machines....
I suppose there is a way to run the domain controller on a non-MS machine right ?
If in my college years, when I was working for different companies (as support/admin), they had that feature, I maybe wouldn't have become such a windows hater and concentrate only on unix-like systems.
But then again, it is not enought to take away the admin rights from users completely, you will need a decent way of remote administrating those damn machines.
Before people start trolling on me: yes, you can take away admin rights in 2000/XP (to a cenrtain level) and there are remote tools......
Admin rights should completely go away, the user should not have right to install, modify, not even change the screensaver dammit. And not run programs at all, only from a secure pool of programs.
That includes "i-know-it-all" managers, who tend to fsck everything up, because they know it so-well they are playing in the registry, and deleting folders/etc...
Now on the remote tool: the nightmare of a a support/admin person is a multi-level building, where you keep going for all those machines, instead of ssh-ing into them and fixing/installing remotely....
Not because they are easy, but they are computer people and not PR monkeys and are probably sick of interacting with all the workers of the companies, who probably do not wash their hands after peeing, and then you have to go and touch 100 keyboars in 100 rooms....
Oh well... just a flashback from my early years of computer support:) and I am not doing anything with customer machines anymore..... but still, I feel it is a problem...
Ohh, and that's why you have to wear the suit and not cargo pants and something that actually keeps you warm in the server room, or climbing on that roof yagi in the european winter to spot the balloons 5kms away on the rooftop with the compass and the binocular, to re-align the connection....
i was thinking the same thing.... then i looked at the 800 price tag.. hmm for $200 more you get a nice ibook, or maybe an older picturebook or other mini-laptop, that makes a lot more use than that HIP device...
btw, what computer was that in the beginning of mission impossible 3 ? looked like something with small screen but full keyboard... hmm... anyway:)
so bottom line is: if you wanna whip something out to write on, whip a small laptop... palmtops, cellphones, these pads are useless - for me at least....
10 years ago (or more) my bbs (pcboard) had a very cool feature :
when new users signed up, old user rated the user upon a question form and decided : stay or go... that worked with 100 people or so (small BBS)
now the net and google is a BIG BBS.... so rate the damn sites.... put a "this site is good content" "shis site is random shit" on the results, so you can click (ajax so it just leaves you on the same page)...
user interaction is good, bots are dumb and if you have 100+ sites with different SEO blackhat crap running on them you'll figure what works and will always flood SE results...
Oh well yea I lost a business due to people actually stealing hard-work-collected-content from my sites,,, and yes, user interaction could have worked,,,
anyway/... let people decide what is content and what is a random collection of keywords stuffed intoa sentence.. NOT A BOT
I beleive Alexa tried this, google might want to reimplement this...
When google bar installed and you are logged into google (gmail or anything) put a little button there :
Rate this site : Search engine spam, good info, mediocre... etc etc...
yes I would click on it (if it is a function that does not take me to 30 other sites and require me to log -in///
It is time we start using our custeomers/visitors/human feedback. ANYONE can generate content from other sites. Just wget whatever. html stip it, mix words into random order, paste at bottom of generated_page_19235534.html and googlebot goes there, indexes it, and you will rank, until some human looks at it, realize that it is HIS/HER site's content and reports it to the search engines as spam...
oh well,when it happens he already lose his rankings for duplicate content.....
?A company selling a product (HW or SW), a company selling a service - can highly benefit if their employees hold a CERT for the product, be it software or hardware or support.
You would like to buy a firewall from a company, who has the product manager trained about the features, and the tech trained on how to set it up. Even if you have your own techs, a 5 minute local call "how do i fix it" is a lot better than try to call INTL and be on the phone on hold for hours to get a canned response.
I think with software it should be the same. Of course, I do not care if my programmer has MS whatever training for desktop support, but if my programmer is writing network code, a Cisco class or firewall Training cannot really hurt.
ANY training adds to the knowledge base of a person. Period. I think jerks try to cut salaries, that is my real feeling.
I think there is too much candy on a computer to make people interested in e.g. starting to learn asm, or lcoding 64k demos....
too many games, too much distraction to actually sit in front of a dull screen with terminal fonts on it....
oh well, it was those kids who programmed kickass stuff back than who had the crappiest rigs, because the ones that could afford one that played quake, played quake...
just my 2c..
ps: yes we should care.... at least teach something, basic, pascal, dunno, to get the kids interested...
I get the point that when you go to a screensaver site and see 2 menupoints and 4 screensavers, that is suspicious, but in most cases they seem to tell me, that a simple design vs bling means that the simple design will sell you spyware....
dunno, i think any download is a potentional spyware, especially the spyware programs (that my wife installed on her mom's computer adter a popup : your computer mught be infected,,, ) well at home she uses linux so did not get a clue......
ohh that crap also has the important message: all p2p programs are spyware laden....
OK, I am the curious kind, and reading the article, downloaded second life.
My net is not perfect 256/128, but this is a damn lagfest. Athlon64 3200+, 1gig ram, and it is like playing quake3 on a 386.
On the other hand, i downloaded Alpha World as well as I haven;t seen it for a long time, and with max detail is just runs perfect and looks better.
I miht ask, if my net and my machine plays BF2 64 player matches without a single lag, how comes that an empty world in the middle of nowhere lags like i can barely move....
The sell/buy idea is great, the implementation freaks me out. If alphaworld had the buy/sell feature like that one does it could beat the crap outta that lagfest horror...
I might be missing something, but the last time I saw something running that choppy was when i tried doom on an xp2000+ on 1024x768....
Well, no virtual land for me.
I also expected somethin a lot nicer, alphaworld delivered this 6 years ago... something thet looks at least as OK as a modern video game... if not doom or HL, but at least something from the 21st century....
don't forget that these "geek" programming channels are now full of "pimp my ride" shows. I think every channel on earth has at least one build a bike, pimp a car or similar show.
OK, you might say that it is geek as well, but I would check who is really watching these... I do honestly, while I do not care about my car, I like to see the technical ones (e.g. tuning stuff), but couldn't care less about stuffing 20 LCD displays and a fountain into the car....
Also you see a lot of history related stuff and nature related things, and while you can look at these with a "geek eye", I am sure some of the people just stare into them.. oooohhh there is a monkey... how cute...
OK, I gave helping hand to convert wannabees, and some people ended up using linux, because they were willing to READ and LEARN.
However some people expected me to fix their system over and over and over, and at the end when I refused I was the ass, the reason of everything wrong. Not their non-willingness to RTFM.
I went as far as I bought a book on Linux - the kind of learn Linux in 14 days or something- to a family member, and went to his house to fix all the problems with the mouse, the retarded USB modem, and spent a whole afternoon teaching "this program is for doing this, and that is for that"...... Since then he is using windows. The book was long, I did not install enough crap on it, or he just simply wasn't up to READING and LEARNING.
Most people are not up to READING and LEARNING. But you do not have to use Linux to face that. I fix family computers with the stupidest repeated problems. Starting from: I flipped my screen upside down, to what is my password.
I was an idiot enough to give mail service to part of my family, so I get the "what is my password" question. And yes, with time you turn to be an A-hole: "the password for what?", "oh mozilla (meaning my mail server), I don't know, but if you need to reset it it will take 2 days, or you can find it, you wrote it down I remember" - and then they find it usually....
Anyway, when intelligent people do not sign up for paypal (a rather complicated process), because I am such an ass and never help them (a couple of business owners, teacher and architect), for me it is a clear indication, that they simply refuse to READ and UNDERSTAND the instructions "e.g. sign up, we charge your card, call your bank (or online bank) and check the number next to the charge, put it here and press submit. (this explanation on half a page)...
People are not stupid, they are just damn lazy....
Agree as well, however I know some people, who really do not get the difference.
I know people who would hook up 2 pairs of extra speakers to their STEREO system, and claim that they have the same surround as me (produced by 6 speakers on a DTS system).....
They also do not notice if the local pirate DVD rental store completely misses the aspect ratio of movies when "burning subtitles" permanently onto movies.
They also really do not care when there is a quality problem, and think that I am a snobbish asshole when I stand up and leave refusing to watch.
OK, in Costa Rica at some particualr video rentals they actually use copies of DVDs.
While most of the time it is a copy of the original DVD (single layer, so special features and some audio tracks are stripped) , at other times they release unacceptable quality screeners, or some digital format release before the actual DVD (usually messing with aspect ratio when they subtitle it, but sometimes with 5.1 digital audio at the same time)....
Just for the record: I do not like renting from there and I do not agree with what they are doing, but sometimes a movie or two somehow makes it to my player (e.g. friends drop by, or I am really desperate to see something and it is not in the decent rentals at all (e.g. asian horror))
Now anyway, when people do not notice that they are looking at a screener, with dull colors and echoed audio, I doubt that they actually notice the difference between HD and non-hd
"the extra are just crap thrown on that reduce the quality"
Hmm, that's why decent releases contain 2 DVDs or are double side DVDs.
I find the extras rather interesting many times and actually the extras make me watch movies on DVD as opposed to theaters (besides the popcorn eating every 2 times pissing cellphone chatters that fill cinemas worldwide)
I know you can look up most of the FACTS on IMDB or online, but when you really enjoy a movie it is nice to pop in the EXTRAS and look at how the tricks were made, or see a few interviews with the crew.
But again: yes I prefer it on a different disc or other side. And yes, on my 800x600 projected screen, extras usually look like crap... and usually they lack surround sound
On the return: you still buy their cards, so that is the return. If the driver does not improve, that return might stop. My linux machines usually get a new card when I upgrade my "other OS" machine.
This far, that meant, that I bought a fancier Nvidia for my Win box, and put the older in the Linux or BSD box....
However: I got sick of the NV (and NVIDIA) driver a while ago, and ordered an MGA 450 Matrox, with 16m, dual head for $15 on ebay. Not fast, but gives 1280x1024 on two heads, crystal clear. How does it come here? Well when I was upgrading this year, I was searching for ATI, and if they had more decent drivers for linux, I would have updated the Win box to a card that could be used later on my non-windows upgrades.
I did not find anything fast and with a good driver, so I went with Nvidia again, but if someone makes a kick ass card with a good linux driver (whether OSS or not) I will go for that card, so in a year or 2 I have a good card in my actual work environment...
now that is how nvidia could loose my return for the driver... and in a way it is ana immediate return
Slashdot Mirror
Oh wait, google already filters ebay listings to some extent, otherwise all the results would be full of *NEW* L@@K sealed shipped DVD shipped from Hong Kong.
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But now, all the "review" "buy" "compare" searches can end up in one of these stores, good work Sergei.
Oh did I forget to mention, that you receive credit from your Adwords spendings to compensate seller costs?
And that paypal charges 3.5%, not the mentioned sub dollar amount? If you have a merchant account at PP you know it anyway, for the rest it is not that important.
I am looking at the API right now, all XML communication, seems easy to integrate, and is already included with some ecommerce packages
Take it easy man! Seriously.
.... He became my boss, and I quit after a month of suffering his incompetency, intolerant unfriendly asshole attitude, and constant lies. The kind of attitude you see in US teen movies, where the local fastfood boss thinks he is the king, and the best thing that can happen to its surrounding. So yes I might have a prejudgement issue with MC bosses and no I never eat in one, ever (not bc that, but I am too healthy for that stuff).
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No one said anything bad about car repairmen or the people who clean our streets. I fought my way thru the stupid system as well. and yes sometimes I am happy they made me sit thru those boring history, music or whatever else classes. Sometimes not.
All I said, that it is a far more fair system than some others, where you pay a bunchload of money, get in without an exam, finish a school and come out as dumb as you went in, than being not happy in a job that you are overqualified for.
I don't know about MC donald's managers in general, I only knew one, who happened to be some self-titled software guru and somehow ended up in managing position where I happened to apply
And thanks, there is no money I would step into a MCD manager's shoes, I'd better live in a tent and herd sheep in the mountains. It's the smell maybe?
So then again, I know very noble people who are otherwise very simple people. Without a degree, doing a good job, here and there.
So be upset if you wish, all I said, that not everyone has to go to college and university, and simpler jobs that need no higher education should be filled too with people who do not belong to higher schools.
And that might offend you again, but I know that in some countries you come out of highschool with more knowledge than some others' colleges, and no, I am not getting into mentioning countries, and that might also change from school to school. Besides that might really offend some people which is not the aim of my post at all.
I did not mean to offend anyone, I know car repairmen, that have university degrees, and know a shrink that is a taxi driver as a side-job (or hobby - I never got that clear)
Because some cultures beleive, that you should only go to higher school if you can perform there.
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Your society needs farmes, car repairmen, plumbers and people who clean the streets
HNow in other societies, you can "buy" into college, college that most people can actually finish, then you end up with a bunch of kids with a degree, who are othervise barely suitable for a simple administration job at the local fastfood restaurant, or price/wal/whatever-mart.
I personally grew up at a place, where even getting into highschool (4 yrs after 8yrs primary) was just impossible for some, because they weren't able to perform well enough to get admission..... university exams were kind of a bloodsport back then
Is that right? If you allow specialization, and have a good selection of importance choices between subjects: yes
In my time, my college points included literature and history, even though I was about to go to an IT school.....
Also in college we wasted a lot of time learning useless stuff because of the lack of specialization, and while I somewhat agree that a universal knowledge should be taught in schools (high, and some uni/college besides the obvious primary), in many times that amount of universal trash should be better considered.
#d web browsers are not effective, bc they are used on a 2d display to represent mostly 3d info..
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they will spread when innovative 3d goggle providers start providing resolutions other than 800x600, to actually make 3d text readable, and vant me to buy a turning chair and some cyber-jockey controller
untill that, i do not want my 2d info made 3d so it can be crappily represented on a 2d device
On VRML: VRML was really a cool tool to demonstrate a bunch of things. I beleive that it could be brought back and used in many fields effectively, the problem is tha same: you do not want to dymp the map of NY in 3d into a browser bc it will take 20 mins to download
now you might want to put an a simple model 3d animated on a school page, e.g. showing how a 4-stroke engine works
oh well, VRML is so dead, and I really liked it
Ok, Probably some will kill me for this, but the (ipod) interface, and the so hiped Wii controller just freaks me out, topi it with a buttonless mouse and I am running in the other direction. Oh wait, throw in som proprietary stuff, that only runs on windows and macs, and is a damn resource hog, and restrict the user in all ways possible to complete the horror (Itunes).
... maybe i am just too old for all that interface revolution ... but try to change the volume on an ipod or FF into a song while running on a treadmill... my sony walkman had no problem with- it 15 years ago .. (DD for running though)
Then again, it is my personal preference , I like buttons that can be pressed, and volume controls that are either button press or can be turned in 2 directions...
I think this marriage will bring a line of broducts, that will be very hip and "innovative" and modern, but not for me sadly.
I am an owner of an ipod and hate the interface, and while the WII looks avesome I have the feeling that it would interest me for 5 minutes which after I would retreat to my keybord/mouse and/or classic ps2 controller.
Also how it will effect prices ? Apple is expensive as hell, the Nintendos are way underpriced (compared to similar products)..
just my 2c. I like buttons and terminal screens
or the lack of them.
While google, yahoo and msn applies artificial filters to comply with law/money interest. ASK.com is pretty much showing what you want it to show.
Also somehow besides that, this is the last engine that somewhat not completely poisoned with spam and blog spam sites.
oh well, it might ..... i do not really deal with windows machines except my game/testing machine and the family's pc's.....
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on the latter i am really waiting for everyone to switch to vista or 2003 or whatever it is called now, and i can sabotage it, not have it, and just claim that i have no clue about it, so that finally i can escape from the 2hrs/week minimum fiddling around with crap they download, infect, rotate, delete, do not understand, crash, change, reinstall etc
with my wife it is so easy. her laptop is an xterm (x Terminal) that runs everything on my (work/linux) machine. She cannot install crap, she can download it but cannot run it
that is how it should be in a company, at home
On the other hand your approach still does not solve my bigger problem: an effective way of remote administering windows machines even on crappy (GPRS or worse) lines (yes i had to admin cisco routers on 1200-2400bps) lines not that long ago (4 years)
anyway not to flame, and you always learn something so i will look into what you just suggested and actually might restrict some family machines
I suppose there is a way to run the domain controller on a non-MS machine right ?
Samba ? or am i dreaming ?
If in my college years, when I was working for different companies (as support/admin), they had that feature, I maybe wouldn't have become such a windows hater and concentrate only on unix-like systems.
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But then again, it is not enought to take away the admin rights from users completely, you will need a decent way of remote administrating those damn machines.
Before people start trolling on me: yes, you can take away admin rights in 2000/XP (to a cenrtain level) and there are remote tools......
Admin rights should completely go away, the user should not have right to install, modify, not even change the screensaver dammit. And not run programs at all, only from a secure pool of programs.
That includes "i-know-it-all" managers, who tend to fsck everything up, because they know it so-well they are playing in the registry, and deleting folders/etc
Now on the remote tool: the nightmare of a a support/admin person is a multi-level building, where you keep going for all those machines, instead of ssh-ing into them and fixing/installing remotely
Not because they are easy, but they are computer people and not PR monkeys and are probably sick of interacting with all the workers of the companies, who probably do not wash their hands after peeing, and then you have to go and touch 100 keyboars in 100 rooms
Oh well
Ohh, and that's why you have to wear the suit and not cargo pants and something that actually keeps you warm in the server room, or climbing on that roof yagi in the european winter to spot the balloons 5kms away on the rooftop with the compass and the binocular, to re-align the connection
i was thinking the same thing .... then i looked at the 800 price tag .. hmm for $200 more you get a nice ibook, or maybe an older picturebook or other mini-laptop, that makes a lot more use than that HIP device ...
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... palmtops, cellphones, these pads are useless - for me at least ....
btw, what computer was that in the beginning of mission impossible 3 ? looked like something with small screen but full keyboard
so bottom line is: if you wanna whip something out to write on, whip a small laptop
10 years ago (or more) my bbs (pcboard) had a very cool feature :
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.... so rate the damn sites .... put a "this site is good content" "shis site is random shit" on the results, so you can click (ajax so it just leaves you on the same page) ...
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,,, and yes, user interaction could have worked ,,,
/... let people decide what is content and what is a random collection of keywords stuffed intoa sentence ..
when new users signed up, old user rated the user upon a question form and decided : stay or go
that worked with 100 people or so (small BBS)
now the net and google is a BIG BBS
user interaction is good, bots are dumb and if you have 100+ sites with different SEO blackhat crap running on them you'll figure what works and will always flood SE results
Oh well yea I lost a business due to people actually stealing hard-work-collected-content from my sites
anyway
NOT A BOT
ohh, i beleive seeing a filter on yahoo, that allows ou to forget about sites ....
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yes blogger and about,com is one of those I would filter out indefinetely
I beleive Alexa tried this, google might want to reimplement this...
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When google bar installed and you are logged into google (gmail or anything) put a little button there :
Rate this site : Search engine spam, good info, mediocre
yes I would click on it (if it is a function that does not take me to 30 other sites and require me to log -in
It is time we start using our custeomers/visitors/human feedback. ANYONE can generate content from other sites. Just wget whatever. html stip it, mix words into random order, paste at bottom of generated_page_19235534.html and googlebot goes there, indexes it, and you will rank, until some human looks at it, realize that it is HIS/HER site's content and reports it to the search engines as spam...
oh well,when it happens he already lose his rankings for duplicate content
?A company selling a product (HW or SW), a company selling a service - can highly benefit if their employees hold a CERT for the product, be it software or hardware or support.
You would like to buy a firewall from a company, who has the product manager trained about the features, and the tech trained on how to set it up. Even if you have your own techs, a 5 minute local call "how do i fix it" is a lot better than try to call INTL and be on the phone on hold for hours to get a canned response.
I think with software it should be the same. Of course, I do not care if my programmer has MS whatever training for desktop support, but if my programmer is writing network code, a Cisco class or firewall Training cannot really hurt.
ANY training adds to the knowledge base of a person. Period.
I think jerks try to cut salaries, that is my real feeling.
I think there is too much candy on a computer to make people interested in e.g. starting to learn asm, or lcoding 64k demos ....
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too many games, too much distraction to actually sit in front of a dull screen with terminal fonts on it
oh well, it was those kids who programmed kickass stuff back than who had the crappiest rigs, because the ones that could afford one that played quake, played quake
just my 2c
ps: yes we should care
I get the point that when you go to a screensaver site and see 2 menupoints and 4 screensavers, that is suspicious, ....
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but in most cases they seem to tell me, that a simple design vs bling means that the simple design will sell you spyware
dunno, i think any download is a potentional spyware, especially the spyware programs (that my wife installed on her mom's computer adter a popup : your computer mught be infected
well at home she uses linux so did not get a clue......
ohh that crap also has the important message: all p2p programs are spyware laden....
OK, I am the curious kind, and reading the article, downloaded second life.
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... if not doom or HL, but at least something from the 21st century ....
My net is not perfect 256/128, but this is a damn lagfest. Athlon64 3200+, 1gig ram, and it is like playing quake3 on a 386.
On the other hand, i downloaded Alpha World as well as I haven;t seen it for a long time, and with max detail is just runs perfect and looks better.
I miht ask, if my net and my machine plays BF2 64 player matches without a single lag, how comes that an empty world in the middle of nowhere lags like i can barely move....
The sell/buy idea is great, the implementation freaks me out. If alphaworld had the buy/sell feature like that one does it could beat the crap outta that lagfest horror
I might be missing something, but the last time I saw something running that choppy was when i tried doom on an xp2000+ on 1024x768
Well, no virtual land for me.
I also expected somethin a lot nicer, alphaworld delivered this 6 years ago... something thet looks at least as OK as a modern video game
don't forget that these "geek" programming channels are now full of "pimp my ride" shows. I think every channel on earth has at least one build a bike, pimp a car or similar show.
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.. oooohhh there is a monkey ... how cute ...
OK, you might say that it is geek as well, but I would check who is really watching these... I do honestly, while I do not care about my car, I like to see the technical ones (e.g. tuning stuff), but couldn't care less about stuffing 20 LCD displays and a fountain into the car
Also you see a lot of history related stuff and nature related things, and while you can look at these with a
"geek eye", I am sure some of the people just stare into them
"This attitude is exactly what people are talking about."
You misread something: I said I use it among friends. and Instead of saying :
"Sorry I do not know what the command is, or how to do that, but please read the manual thet comes with the thing"
that on IRC or IM takes a long time.
RTFM is short and means that no, i do not know it, reat the manual, or
"Too long RTFM" means: I know it, but it is easier to read the manual, because i do not want to/don't have time to explain 200pages of sendmail dox
sorry to be rude:
if they are not computer gurus, they should pay someone to set their computer up, then use the required programs.
They SHOULD_NOT fiddle around as ROOT/ADMIN neither in WINDOWS or any UNIX-type system.
And if they want to be computer gurus, they should RTFM.
very true. In fact I use RTFM a lot among friends
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"do you know how to do what XXXYY does in perl in php?"
"Not, RTFM"
That is not rude, it simply means, no I do not know how, but should be in the manual.
I might even give an answer, that it is too long to explain, so RTFM
Whoever gets offended by it should see a shrink and cry there.
OK, I gave helping hand to convert wannabees, and some people ended up using linux, because they were willing to READ and LEARN.
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However some people expected me to fix their system over and over and over, and at the end when I refused I was the ass, the reason of everything wrong. Not their non-willingness to RTFM.
I went as far as I bought a book on Linux - the kind of learn Linux in 14 days or something- to a family member, and went to his house to fix all the problems with the mouse, the retarded USB modem, and spent a whole afternoon teaching "this program is for doing this, and that is for that"...... Since then he is using windows. The book was long, I did not install enough crap on it, or he just simply wasn't up to READING and LEARNING.
Most people are not up to READING and LEARNING. But you do not have to use Linux to face that. I fix family computers with the stupidest repeated problems. Starting from: I flipped my screen upside down, to what is my password.
I was an idiot enough to give mail service to part of my family, so I get the "what is my password" question. And yes, with time you turn to be an A-hole: "the password for what?", "oh mozilla (meaning my mail server), I don't know, but if you need to reset it it will take 2 days, or you can find it, you wrote it down I remember" - and then they find it usually....
Anyway, when intelligent people do not sign up for paypal (a rather complicated process), because I am such an ass and never help them (a couple of business owners, teacher and architect), for me it is a clear indication, that they simply refuse to READ and UNDERSTAND the instructions "e.g. sign up, we charge your card, call your bank (or online bank) and check the number next to the charge, put it here and press submit. (this explanation on half a page)
People are not stupid, they are just damn lazy....
HAHA :) I can see my family members look at each other "here we go again"....
..... especially the "digital clouds" and "digital skies", with harsh, sawtooth edges instead of a smooth sunset....
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I just hate those artifacts
So relax, you are not alone, I am treated like a psycho at home, and no one wants to talk to me about audio or video quality anymore
Agree as well, however I know some people, who really do not get the difference.
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I know people who would hook up 2 pairs of extra speakers to their STEREO system, and claim that they have the same surround as me (produced by 6 speakers on a DTS system)
They also do not notice if the local pirate DVD rental store completely misses the aspect ratio of movies when "burning subtitles" permanently onto movies.
They also really do not care when there is a quality problem, and think that I am a snobbish asshole when I stand up and leave refusing to watch.
OK, in Costa Rica at some particualr video rentals they actually use copies of DVDs.
While most of the time it is a copy of the original DVD (single layer, so special features and some audio tracks are stripped) , at other times they release unacceptable quality screeners, or some digital format release before the actual
DVD (usually messing with aspect ratio when they subtitle it, but sometimes with 5.1 digital audio at the same time)....
Just for the record: I do not like renting from there and I do not agree with what they are doing, but sometimes a movie or two somehow makes it to my player (e.g. friends drop by, or I am really desperate to see something and it is not in the decent rentals at all (e.g. asian horror))
Now anyway, when people do not notice that they are looking at a screener, with dull colors and echoed audio, I doubt that they actually notice the difference between HD and non-hd
"the extra are just crap thrown on that reduce the quality"
Hmm, that's why decent releases contain 2 DVDs or are double side DVDs.
I find the extras rather interesting many times and actually the extras make me watch movies on DVD as opposed to theaters (besides the popcorn eating every 2 times pissing cellphone chatters that fill cinemas worldwide)
I know you can look up most of the FACTS on IMDB or online, but when you really enjoy a movie it is nice to pop in the EXTRAS and look at how the tricks were made, or see a few interviews with the crew.
But again: yes I prefer it on a different disc or other side. And yes, on my 800x600 projected screen, extras usually look like crap... and usually they lack surround sound
Well said.
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... and in a way it is ana immediate return
On the return: you still buy their cards, so that is the return. If the driver does not improve, that return might stop.
My linux machines usually get a new card when I upgrade my "other OS" machine.
This far, that meant, that I bought a fancier Nvidia for my Win box, and put the older in the Linux or BSD box
However: I got sick of the NV (and NVIDIA) driver a while ago, and ordered an MGA 450 Matrox, with 16m, dual head for $15 on ebay. Not fast, but gives 1280x1024 on two heads, crystal clear.
How does it come here?
Well when I was upgrading this year, I was searching for ATI, and if they had more decent drivers for linux, I would have updated the Win box to a card that could be used later on my non-windows upgrades.
I did not find anything fast and with a good driver, so I went with Nvidia again, but if someone makes a kick ass card with a good linux driver (whether OSS or not) I will go for that card, so in a year or 2 I have a good card in my actual work environment
now that is how nvidia could loose my return for the driver